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08-28-2003, 01:43 PM
Cheney's ex-firm given $1.7 billion for services
By Michael Dobbs
The Washington Post
August 28, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion in connection with the war in Iraq and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.
The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton are significantly greater than previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that up to one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.
Services performed by Halliburton, through its Brown and Root subsidiary, include building and managing military bases, logistical support for the 1,200 intelligence officers hunting for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, delivering mail and producing millions of hot meals.
Spreadsheets drawn up by the Army Joint Munitions Command show that about $1 billion had been allocated to Brown and Root Services through mid-August for contracts associated with the war in Iraq. In addition, the company has earned about $705 million for an initial round of oil field rehabilitation work for the Army Corps of Engineers, a corps spokesman said.
Specific work orders assigned to the Halliburton subsidiary include $142 million for base camp operations in Kuwait, $170 million for logistical support for the Iraqi reconstruction effort and $28 million for the construction of enemy prisoner of war camps, the Army spreadsheet shows. The company also was allocated $39 million for building and operating U.S. base camps in Jordan, the existence of which the Pentagon never publicly acknowledged.
Halliburton has emerged as the biggest single government contractor in Iraq, followed by Bechtel, a California-based engineering firm that has won hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Agency for International Development reconstruction contracts, and Virginia-based DynCorp, which is training the new Iraqi police force.
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By Michael Dobbs
The Washington Post
August 28, 2003
WASHINGTON -- Halliburton, the company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney, has won contracts worth more than $1.7 billion in connection with the war in Iraq and stands to make hundreds of millions more dollars under a no-bid contract awarded by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, according to newly available documents.
The size and scope of the government contracts awarded to Halliburton are significantly greater than previously disclosed and demonstrate the U.S. military's increasing reliance on for-profit corporations to run its logistical operations. Independent experts estimate that up to one-third of the monthly $3.9 billion cost of keeping U.S. troops in Iraq is going to independent contractors.
Services performed by Halliburton, through its Brown and Root subsidiary, include building and managing military bases, logistical support for the 1,200 intelligence officers hunting for Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, delivering mail and producing millions of hot meals.
Spreadsheets drawn up by the Army Joint Munitions Command show that about $1 billion had been allocated to Brown and Root Services through mid-August for contracts associated with the war in Iraq. In addition, the company has earned about $705 million for an initial round of oil field rehabilitation work for the Army Corps of Engineers, a corps spokesman said.
Specific work orders assigned to the Halliburton subsidiary include $142 million for base camp operations in Kuwait, $170 million for logistical support for the Iraqi reconstruction effort and $28 million for the construction of enemy prisoner of war camps, the Army spreadsheet shows. The company also was allocated $39 million for building and operating U.S. base camps in Jordan, the existence of which the Pentagon never publicly acknowledged.
Halliburton has emerged as the biggest single government contractor in Iraq, followed by Bechtel, a California-based engineering firm that has won hundreds of millions of dollars in U.S. Agency for International Development reconstruction contracts, and Virginia-based DynCorp, which is training the new Iraqi police force.
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